The AIMS conference is a single-track event integrating normal
conference paper sessions, tutorials, keynotes, and a PhD student
workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the goals of AIMS is
to look beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange of ideas across
researchers of different communities and among PhD
students. Furthermore, AIMS 2013 integrates 1.5 days of courses and
labs which offer hands-on learning experiences in network and service
management topics and which require attendees to work in practical
on-site courses combined with preceding short tutorial-like teaching
sessions.

AIMS 2013 focuses on the theme of managing and monitoring of
next-generation networks, network security and services. New paradigms
as well as autonomic and fully distributed algorithms, virtualization
and monitoring techniques or self-organizing overlays have to be
investigated to design scalable and resilient frameworks able to deal
with dynamic environments providing big data to process while also
protecting privacy. The design, monitoring, configuration and
protection of the next generation of networked systems in an
efficient, secure, and autonomic manner are crucial to commercially
viable and successful networks and services.

Authors are invited to submit papers on the following topics,
including related fields:

Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted
for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be
limited to 12 pages in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12
pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be
rejected without further review. Paper submission is handled by the
JEMS system, accessible from the AIMS 2013 Web page.

PhD Student Workshop Submission:

The PhD student workshop is open to both PhD and prospective PhD
students. Authors are invited to submit short papers (4 pages, written
in English and in PDF format) describing the current state of their
research. The paper should include a clear description of the research
problem and the chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the
approach novel, and it should outline the results achieved to
date. Specific, low-level technical details should be avoided. Papers
should have no more than two authors – the student and the
advisor. Accepted submissions will be published in the AIMS 2013
proceedings.

Proceedings:

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture
Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series and will include the
conference papers as well as the PhD student workshop papers.